The killers found Hugo Albeiro George Pérez sitting and chatting at a fruit juice stand. It was May 2, and he had been protesting construction of a massive hydroelectric project in northern Colombia. George, 48, was fatally shot in the back, according to his widow, Carmen. His nephew, Dilmar Zapata, was also killed. “Hugo talked a lot to the news media and became a target,” Carmen George said in an interview in Medellin, about 100 miles south of where the killing happened. The deaths of George and Zapata reflect a dismal trend.
